Stephanie is a South Carolina native with a Special and Elementary Education degree from Anderson University. Prior to moving to Denver, Stephanie taught elementary and middle school students at a national recognized model school from the Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators (AOGPE) in Columbia, South Carolina. There she was able to obtain her Orton-Gillingham certification while working under many OG Fellows. Her husband’s Family Medicine Residency moved them to Denver, Colorado in May of 2015. She spent time working for Aurora Public Schools before she joined the eXL Learning team. Colorado has quickly become home and you can find her exploring the beautiful state with her husband and dog when she’s not tutoring!

Mari Martin is a native to the west slope of Colorado. She recently moved to Denver to be near family and take on the role of part-time Granny-Nanny to her new baby granddaughter. She lived on the eastern slope in the distance past when she completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Colorado Boulder. Mari spent the last 35 years involve in Early Childhood Education in Dolores, Colorado. When her three children were preschool age Mari opened The Children’s House Preschool, and served as the school’s director. During this time she returned to school for her Elementary Education Teacher Certification. The success of the preschool landed her a position with Colorado State University, working on a five-year research grant targeting preschool-aged children and their parents. She wrote the DARE to be You Preschool Children’s Curriculum and The Ute Mountain Ute ABC Book, both published by CSU. From there she entered the classroom at Dolores Elementary School and taught K-2 for the past 23 years. She was trained early in her teaching career in the Spalding Method, a precursor to the Orton-Gillingham Method. Mari completed her Orton-Gillingham training with Ron Yoshimoto, Hawaii Department of Education’s Statewide Special Education Literacy Resource Teacher Trainer, in both basic OG and Morphology. Her training also includes certification from The International Readers Theater Institute, which she attended in Montreal, Canada.

Stephanie is a Denver native and Denver Public Schools graduate. She attended University of Northern Colorado and graduated with a degree in Early Childhood Education. She is certified to teach children from birth to 6th grade. Stephanie currently teaches at Denver Jewish Day School in 2nd Grade. During the summer, she works for a variety of summer camps where her passion of teaching outdoor skills and a love for nature is fulfilled. When not tutoring, she is reading, snuggling with her kitten, hiking, or kayaking​.

​Heather is a preschool program coordinator and teacher. She attended Pepperdine University and graduated with a degree in Liberal Arts and a multiple subject teaching credential in 2010. She taught public elementary school for four years in Thousand Oaks, CA and for one year in Denver. She has a passion for hands-on, project-based learning and a love of sports and the outdoors.

Alexandra is a K-8th grade Math and Literacy tutor. She attended CU with a B.A. in Psychology and Elementary Education, and is a Colorado licensed teacher. She is passionate about involving students in their learning, and helps students build confidence in their abilities. She uses hands on, multi-modal strategies and has experience as an interventionist and a classroom teacher. In her free time, she enjoys skydiving, snowboarding, and other outdoor adventures.

Cecilia is a native of Colorado. She Graduated from Metropolitan State College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology and a Minor in Reading. She also has a Master of Arts in Education from the University of Colorado Denver. She Retired from Denver Public Schools in 2012 after serving the district for 24 years, teaching 5th grade most of my career and also as a math intervention teacher for 6th-8th grade. I enjoy doing activities with my family on the weekends and bowling with my husband during the week. ​Cecilia runs the exl learning lab after school ensuring that kids get their homework done right the first time and ready to hand in.

Andrea (also goes by Andi) is currently a medical student at the University of Colorado. She grew up and attended High School in Dallas. She then came to Boulder, CO for her undergrad at CU.

After graduating, she worked for a few years in molecular genetics research, then continued on to graduate school at CU Denver where she received an M.S. degree in Biology. Andrea has taken the SAT, ACT, GRE, and MCAT, and has previously tutored students in ACT, SAT, and MCAT.

“I love teaching and besides test prep, I have taught undergraduate physiology, biology, and molecular genetics courses. When I’m not studying, I like to run and be active or do something artistic.”​

​Shannon is a Denver native with a BA degree in Spanish from Macalester College (St. Paul, MN) and MA in Urban Education from the University of Denver. After living in different parts of the country, she returned to Denver in 2003 and began her teaching career. She has taught in English and in Spanish. Shannon has received training and certification in Guided Reading Plus, a reading intervention modeled after Reading Recovery. Currently, she works as an ESL teacher (English as a Second Language), teaching students in grades kindergarten through fifth. When she is not working with her students, she enjoys gardening, road trips, and spending time with her teenage son and their golden retriever.

Brianne has been teaching in schools around the Denver Metro for the past four years. She has worked with grades K-3 and is currently a first grade teacher. She is also certified in Orton-Gillingham and uses this instructional method on a daily basis to help second-language learners thoroughly understand the phonetic code of English.

Brianne is passionate about helping her students to read and to write. In her spare time, Brianne loves to see the beautiful things happening in Denver with her husband.

Meryl is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and has worked as a sixth grade math teacher for the past few years at a Denver charter school. Before she entered education, she worked as an engineer in Richmond, Virginia where she designed municipal water systems. She also spent a year teaching English in a village in beautiful Costa Rica. When Meryl isn’t teaching, she likes to ski with her husband and spend time with her wonderful son, Ian.

​Hannah is a first grade teacher with a love of authentic, exciting learning! She believes learning is messy, silly, and that kids are the most natural learners of us all. She hopes to always inspire kids to tap into their natural curiosity and wonder, so they find the joy in learning for themselves and become lifelong learners. When she is not at school, she loves to read, hike with her husband and two dogs, try to grow something other than weeds in her garden, and explore all the fun Denver has to offer.

​Veronica comes from a family of teachers and started volunteering in classrooms as a child. Born in California, she attended the University of California: Santa Cruz, where she was a writing tutor for 3 years. After completing her bachelor’s, she continued at her university to obtain her master’s degree in education and her teaching credential in elementary education. After completing her student teaching in California, she moved to Denver to begin her teaching career. She worked with Denver Public Schools before joining the eXL team. She enjoys hiking, road trips, and working on her own writing projects in her spare time!